Pacific Media Watch
Pacific Media Watch is compiled for the Pacific Media Centre as a regional media freedom and educational resource by a network of journalists, students, stringers and commentators.
Hot off the press – Wansolwara marks USP’s 50th anniversary
By Elizabeth Osifelo in Suva
The first edition of the University of the South Pacific’s student journalist training newspaper Wansolwara for the year has hit...
Jale Moala: Fiji’s longest day – George Speight and the march...
BRIEFING: By Jale Moala in Port Moresby
MAY 19, 2000: As editor of the Fiji Daily Post newspaper in Suva, I was expecting some big...
Justice Rajasinghe to deliver Fiji Times sedition trial verdict on Tuesday
By Litia Cava in Suva
High Court judge Justice Thushara Rajasinghe is set to deliver his verdict on Tuesday after the three assessors returned with...
Fiji Times sedition trial assessors give unanimous ‘not guilty’ opinion
By Talebula Kate in Suva
The three assessors in The Fiji Times sedition trial tonight returned a unanimous not guilty opinion on all counts.
They found...
Martyn Bradbury: Still awaiting the birth of a real Fourth Estate
By Martyn Bradbury, editor of The Daily Blog
I was fortunate enough to get a guest ticket to go along with Voyager to the NZ...
Journalists’ free alliance advocate calls on minister to use UN ‘leverage’
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The Australian journalist and academic who spent more than a year in an Egyptian prison has welcomed Foreign Minister Julie Bishop's...
Tuilaepa accuses Pohiva of being ‘jello’ over Samoan press freedom
By Joyetter Feagaimaali’i-Luamanu
Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sa’ilele Malielelgaoi has accused his Tongan counterpart 'Akilisi Pohiva of being "jello" - jealous - of Samoa's media freedom...
‘Time of anxiety’ – a depressing new normal for local journalists...
By Colleen Murrell in Melbourne
For journalists who cover Afghanistan, the bombing that killed nine local reporters last week in Kabul was a sober reminder...
Mass staff walkout at Phnom Penh Post owner’s self-censorship order
By Thomas Brent, Tom O'Connell, Janelle Retka in Phnom Penh
Cambodia’s last independent newspaper has had its editorial team gutted after its managing editor, web...
Journalist turns tales of undercover Papuan reporting into love novel
BOOK REVIEW: By Bambang Muryanto in Yogyakarta
A Dutch freelance journalist, Rohan (a pen name), had been interested in the political turmoil in Papua...
Macron visits Ouvéa on anniversary of defining 1988 hostage crisis
FLASHBACK: The controversial docudrama Rebellion, screened at the 2012 NZ International Film Festival by director Mathieu Kassovitz and featuring some Kanak relatives of the...
Journalists talk press freedom – ‘be afraid, but do the...
In this World Press Freedom Day video, Filipino journalists Ed Lingao, Jason Gutierrez, Inday Espina-Varona, Ezra Acayan, and JC Gotinga speak about facing threats...
Student journalists speak up – not all glamour but risky in...
By Laiseana Nasiga in Suva
Final-year student journalists at the University of the South Pacific took centre stage at this year’s World Press Freedom Day...
Journalists work ‘in fear’ in PNG, says media freedom advocate
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A senior journalist in Papua New Guinea says there is no media freedom in the country and journalists are often working...
Opposition PNG MP wins court phone reprieve for ‘at risk’ lives
EMTV News report on the National Information and Communications Technology Authority (NICTA) chief executive Charles Punaha claiming the agency would move against unregistered simcards...
Pacific research strategies get airing on PMC’s Southern Cross radio
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Operations manager of the NZ Institute for Pacific Research, Dr Evelyn Masters, presented an introduction to regional initiatives and a media...
Another Facebook photo ‘community filtering’ policy failure
By Colin Peacock, editor of RNZ Mediawatch
Facebook has been under fire for some time for distributing misinformation and fake news to a potential audience...
Sylvester Gawi: PNG journalism and the challenge of the ‘kaikai man’
By Sylvester Gawi in Lae
The greatest challenge facing journalism in Papua New Guinea today is that there is no freedom of the press. Journalists...
China’s media control threatens Asia-Pacific democracies, says RSF
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The Chinese model of state-controlled news and information is being copied in other Asian countries, especially Vietnam and Cambodia, says the...
Facebook still censors West Papua photo – ‘nudity’ or politics?
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Facebook has censored a West Papuan image by a Vanuatu-based photojournalist for the second time in less than four days -...
Watchdog role of media highlighted in USP journalism talk
By Ronald Tito'ona in Honiara
Local journalists in the Solomon Islands have been again reminded of their watchdog role by keeping the government accountable in the...
Dan McGarry: Want to lead in the Pacific? Try listening first
By Dan McGarry in Port Vila
The average Australian’s conception of Pacific island nations is so limited it makes some of us wonder if they...
